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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
MY COTTAGE WINDOW.

Homeiy and humble, these my cottage rooms
No fine upholstering gldcd walls;
No woven threads of Persia's tabled looms;
No fairarched entrance into stately halls.
No marble Ciytic, with its frozen veins
All Dioodsnss, wandering over snowy breast;
But one sweet Cupid, touched with richer
strains
Ofrosy life on lip and cheek, and crest
On golden curis. whose spirals catch the glow
OF every sunbeam; this my kingly boy.
And my one window, wisely made for show
OF grcenest foIiago-those insure me JOY.
MY cottage window, framed with sturdiest
vine,
Whose giadness laughs in every lusty leaf
Where fuchsias hang their bells, and panses
shine
Like violet eyes, touched with some childish
grief.
Hero blooms the rose, and there the spicy pink
Herc lifts the Gala. lgrandly, pure and fair
And hero sit I, to read or work, or think,
And Irvine bright flowers in babys golden
hair.
Call monot poor. for wondrous wealth Is mine
The wealth offboundless love and sweet con-
font;
One human blossom, Heaven shall make d.
NIe,
And Gods dear flowers In loving likeness
hient.
Mrs. Harry Dom IN " Y. Matt and Express.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08

Every woman will Of course deny
that she laces. A very eminent lady
specialist Of New York said, however,
a few weeks since that you could not
lay the weight Of your finger on an ex-
posed vein without limiting its natural
flow Of blood. She also said that she
had not had female patient for many
months who had drawn full breath
one which expanded her lungs to their
full capacity-for year. The doctors
and druggists could, If they chose, tell
a story concerning American women
which would to the intelligent ear be
startling. They say that perfectly
sound girl of twenty is uncommon in
society. The female aristocracy in one
section of the lands have decreed fiat
chests to be the proper thing, because
many of them. through relaxed muscles
and diminished strength, were poverty
stricken in curving lines of beauty.
They had fine working majority with
which to pass the fashionable law.
Those Cat chests were simply the
natural result Of a generation or so Of
dressing and living on the fashionable
American plan.-N. y Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Overreached Himself.

Mr.. James Keegan had bargained at
Prince Edward Island for horse. the
price to be $l75, and was just about to
hand over the money when he remarked:
1.-The halter goes with tho horse, Of
course; l have none with me-" The
halter in question was an old one, worth
perhaps forty cents 20. no." replied
the owner. ''if you want the halter l
want my pay for it." This was too
much for our genial friend Keegan,
and quoth he: ..How much do you want
for your old halter?' ''Seventy-five
oents," was the reply. '.All right,
said Keegan. Here's your seventy-iive
cents; that's just such a halter as I've
been looking for" And as he passed
over the change he quietly took of the
halter. put the $175 back into his pocket,
stepped into his buggy and rode away,
leaving his over-grasping owner TO
lament the loss Of good sale, and 70
get home his hridleless horse as best h.
might Aagsste H. Nsg ~,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Majesty Of the Law.

It is generally good indication
when man magnifies his Office. A
supplemented and honest German,
having been called upon to quell die
turbance in a western town. under
took his official duty with courage and
zeal.
Selling member Of the disturbing
element" by the collar at the back Of
his neck, he was met with the indig-
nant demand; who's got hould Of mep
Who's moulding mep'
you wand to know who hat got
holdt OF you. heyp Now shocst told
you! 1t vas der Shtate Won Ohio!
Yosth's Companson
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
CRUEL DECEPTION.

How o Real Estate Buyer Took Advan-
tage of Southern Gentleman.
A man stopped near Patterson's
bayou and thus addressed an old fellow
who stood with his arms resting on
fence:
"Do you live here?"
"Don't see me dyin' here, do youp"
"Ah, you are sportiVe. Ihave heard
of this neighborhood and have the
names of several people. Where is j.
B. Nuclei
Dead"
"AhP'
"Ah, hail."
"What was the matter with himr
"Sick."
"What sort of sicknessP'
"Swamp fever.
Lets see," consulting a scrap of
paper; "where is Tom w. Buck'"
dead"
"What did he die ofP'
"Swamp fever
"Humph. Where can find Sim
Bly,"
I'm the graveyard"
"Swamp feverp"
"Yes.''
''Do you know any thing about Cal
WIN HunterP"
Eyes, laid him out"
"What was the matter with himp"
"Swamp fever"
my friend, l have come into this
neighborhood to buy land"
The native, smiling welcome, re-
piled: We've got the finest country
on earth, podner, right here. I've got
two hundred and sixty acres that I'll
let you have. /"
"How does it lieP"
Illustrate.
"How's the waterP"
"Best in the world"
s'Land rich?"
Cream couldn't hold a lightning
bug to il"
"How is this neighborhood in the
way of healthp"
"Sweet as a pre-fnest you ever
saw"
"No chillsP"
"Not one.'
"Fever of any kind?'
"Not feve."
"What about those fellows that
diedp'
''Hah-oh, them fellers. Wy, you
see they-they-w'y, they oughter
died"
That's all right. but don't believe
want any land round here"
''Yeu don't! Wy confound your
ugly hide, wy didn't you tell me at
fust that You thought o. buyin' land
an l wouldn't said nothin' about
them fellers dyin'. Blast your hide,
you 60 around the country takin' adj
vantage o fellers this way You don't
know how to treat a gentleman. Move
on now, or I'll hurt you. Come cheat
in me out of sale. Move on, tell
xo,, ~ 1rLr,, eu,,, Tyn,,ofer
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Steam Job Printing.
OUR JOB DEPARTMENT
is ONE OF THE
BEST EQUIPPED IN THE STATE.
GENERAL WORK OF ALL KINDS
xxxcuTED ON SHORT NOTICE
IN The
BEST STYLE.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Altogether there are In England
and Wales no less than 230 religious
sects.
Above the cloud which casts its
shadows upon us, is tho star that sends
Its light towards u.s. pictor Hugo.
If we only had sufficient Christians
ity to prevent our children showing
so much vice, Pomeroy's .1dcdnos
Thought AZ
One reason why the homely girl
takes the scholarship prize is because
she looks into books more than into
mirrors Mem Orleans Rcaywne.
The Episcopal cathedral in Topeka,
Kans. has been sold. and new edifioo
is to be built, with chapter-house con-
nected. to cost eos. 900 or 500. 900.
The Cumberland Prcsbyterians
now have 2.546 churches and menu
bership Of nearly $50, 900, and the pub
location house at Nashville, Tenn. il
credited with a CHAR profit Of -, l89
for the last year.-lndianapolis Jowvwol.
The Union Theological school 81
Toxic, Japan, supported by all vhe
evangelical Protestant churches, has
nine professors and lecturers in -
many different departments, two Of
whom Messrs. Ibuka and Ggimi, are
natives
The opposition Of the Turkish gov
eminent to mission schools in PAlces
tine, so far as the education In them Of
Mohammedan children is concerned.
has illuminated In an order from Con-
stantinople forbidding the attendance
of Moslems altogether. Puddle Opinion
Frank Puriy and David Sherman,
Indian printer boys at the Genoa (NcbY
Indian school, arc trying 10 raiso e26Q
for small printing outfit with whica
to issue plpcr from that school called
the Pipe Of Pace. Their subscription
l. endorsed by the superintendent a
the school.
80 Large and sweet" wss tho u
scription given Of fruit which ID wary
attractive as description, II II bo
true one, Of a Christian. Sour. Of sny
size, is not desirable. and tho small
sweet kind is not tho best; but good
size, indicating body and strength, with
the real gospel flavor-that is the ~
ligion to look for. United PrcstytcrtetG
Sam Jones told an audience q
Round Lake, N. Y; II can got along
with an old sinner; can bear patiently
with a poor dfunkard; but when )
church member begins to apologize for
his meanncss and gets mad because b.
is told of his faults, it makes mo sick
at my stomach. II any of you get mad
at what l am saying just come up like
| gentlemen and ask my pardon and Ill
forgive YOU" Nobody apologized.
"A Massachusetts pastor, vino ID
himself the embodiment of good cheer.
preached at wcll-known summer re-
sort lately from the text; Fret not
Thyself," and it is said that there never
was so little fretting on Monday morn-
ing in the kitchens of that town beforel
The good effect of the sermon was
shown, also, at the hotels, where one
man, who had grumblcd daily over his
food. on that Sabbath noon pronounced
the chowder excellent and continued
to praise the cooking until he left town..
Here is hint to ministers to give their
hearers practical. as well as doctrinal
truth. Congrcgationalist.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
AS TO EQUAL RIGHTS.
The Banner Generally Found at the Head
OF the Procession


1t is wrong to consider the variety of
equality contemplated by the Declara-
ton of Independence as likely in any
way to be mistaken for a kind of COM
munism of brains. We can safely say
that the time will never come when
the men with vast aggregations of
brains will have to divide up with those
who simply have an opening for brains
That kind of communism would be a
mighty good thing, however, for the
people who claim that political equality
is a chestnut
If the man who breads the day when
equality is a settled fact could work it
some way to have brains divided up
equally and could be around when the
division is made he would be ahead.
But the equality referred to in the
Declaration is not that kind. 1t is the
kind that does not chisel ont poor
mans vitals in the matter of wages
and then compel him to buy every
thing he needs of his employer at big
price. 1t is the kind that protects the
toiler who appeals TO the law as
promptly and efficiently rs it does the
swollen, stiff-necked imitation Lord,
with his hired brains and his bogus
crest.
Equality in America ought to mean
that the bravest, ablest and best men
should rule the State and the Nation.
Then the United States Senate will not
look like a mass-meeting of plumbers.
When equality is better understood
and becomes something besides an
empty name. the term political pull
will lose its significance, and the aver
age voter will not even need apolitical
pull to operate an election day cigar.
There has never been better banner
to fight under since the world began
than that of freedom and equality be-
fore the law. and the banner that has
this device written on it in plain,
running hand will generally be found
at the head of the procession.
The man who is born in America
finds, as soon as he does so, that he has
in his inside pocket small package OF
inalienable rights, among which are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness. II he happens to be born into
our set he uses these inalienable rights
with perfect impunity, swapping about
among some of his more unfortunate
companions until he also has their in
alienable rights. He then proceeds to
make nuisance OF himself.
Universal equality before the law has
not been asserting itself very much
lately, but she man who treads on the
tail of his coat is liable not to get home
in time for lunch, and when he does get
home the chances are that he will
bring lobe of his liver with him in his
pockt-handk erchief.
There is a little contemplate feai
lurking about in the breasts of few one
horse Americans that some one may
spring suddenly upon them and charge
them some day with being the equal o.
somebody
Their fear is entirely groundless
They can go to bed every night per
fectly secure in the comforting con
seriousness that they win wake up il
the morning perfectly free from any
such charge, and no man will ever &C
to them and insist on an equal division
| of brains with them unless he is n mar
whose brains are so abnormally large
that they actually pain him. Bill Nye
lin N. Y World.
1
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
ERA OF RIG CENT.
How the Great Money Kings of the Past
Acquired Their Fortunes.

fcqutftu
Few men at the present day blunder
into business success. Few men wake
up and find themselves wealthy with
out knowing the reason why. When
the margin of profit is reckoned by the
fraction of cent on nearly all commo-
dities of the industrial world, there is
little room for the element of luck in
modern business and commercial trans
actions. The time has gone by when for
tune smiles upon the bold and reckless
adventurer; but her favors are rather
cast upon the frugal saver Of waste and
remnants, the prudent conservator Of
scraps and rawlings Business sue
cess at the present day, more often
than ever before, passes by the lavish
and adventurous manipulation and
abides with the slow-going eonserva-
tive, who has come to learn by long
experience the incalculable value of
the single cent.
The young Napoleons of Finance"
the Ives and Wards of the. period
have fallen, of late, into disrepute.
Though they manage their forces with
dash and maneuvre it Is found they
march inevitably to Waterloo. They
build up regulations as irridcscent as
the soap bubble-and as unsubstantial.
Their balloon goes up grandly enough,
but bursts in midair.
Enormous fortunes have been made
since the war, but the element of luck
has not been such potent factor in
their requirement as is generally sup
posed. The greatest fortunes of our
money kings have been acquired
through the development of new coun-
try through the agency of railroads.
Fabulous profits have doubtless been
realized; but the law of compe-
tition has brought the freight and
passenger rates of the railroads
down to figure that would not have
been considered self-supporting few
years ago, and the most observing
economists now believe that the era Of
great railroad fortunes is over. OF
course man who can build a railroad
into the virgin soil and ugathered re-
sources Of an El-Dorado, can put out
his hand and gather in fortune as
easily as a child can gather berries.
But our El-Dorados are nearly ex-
hausted. A new invention, like the
telegraph, very naturally builds up
great individual wealth and corporate
fortunes. But now all civilized laods
have been clothed, as with a garment
whose warp and wool are telegraph
wires, and the oceans have been belted
with cables. So tho era of fabulous
fortunes through the highways Of COM
munication and transportation is over.
In the days of the California gold
fever the dime was the smallest coin in
use in many parts of the West. There
is now growing up demand for the
coinage of half-cents. We have reached
the homely half-cent epoch of business
! solidity. The financial pulse is getting
down to the healthful beating of a fru-
gal and economic style of living and
management; and the change is a
grateful one after the era of panic and
disaster. We no longer look for the
visionary pot of gold on the end of the
rainbow; but the conviction is growing
stronger in all sane business minds
that it must be dug out of a stony sol
| with much wear and tear of brain and
nerve fiber-a cent at time. Yankee
| Blade.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
A Fable for Fishermen.

A couple of Fish were Swimming
about a Wharf one day when a Man
sat down on the edge of the Planks and
Dropped in his Hook and Line.
''See thatr' queried one Of the Fish.
IKE thinks to Play us for Suckers with
a bare Hook. He has no bsit on it"
my son, p" responded the other. 'she
has no Idea Of even getting Bite. 1t
is the Fish which men don't Catch that
tbsy Lie about - etrQit Free PreeA
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
DURATION OF LIFE.
The Stage to Which Manhood Has at Pres
emit Attained.

The stage to which Manhood Has at Pres
ent Attained.
Compared with the period 1838-1S55
(the earliest for which there are trust
worthy records), the average of
mans life is now 4l.9 years, instead Of
1913, and of Yoman's 45.3, instead of
41.9 years-an addition of s per cent
to the female life and 5 per cent to the
males. Of each thousand male born
Of the present day, "A more will attain
the age of IS than used to be the case
previous to 1871. For the whole of life
the estimate now is that of 1000 per-
sons (one-half males and one-half fe-
males) IS survive at the age of forty
five, 26 at fifty-five, 9 at sixty-five, at
seventy-tive, and one at eighty-five.
To put the case in another way, every
thousand persons born since 1870 will
live about 2,700 years longer than be-
fore. In other words, the life of a
thousand persons is now equal in dura-
ton to that of 1,070 persons previously;
and 1000 births will now keep up the
growth Of our population as we'll as
1,070 births used to do. This is equiv
alent in result to an increase Of
our population. and in the best
form, viz: not by more births,
but by fewer deaths, which means
fewer maladfes and better health.
What is more nearly seventy per cent
Of this increase of life takes place Cor
Is lived) in the "useful period"
namely, between the ages of twenty
and sixty. Thus of the 200 addi-
tional years lived by each Thousand Of
our population, seventy per cent. Of
1890 years will be a direct addition to
the working power Of our people. II
is to be remembered that there might
be great addition to the births in q
country with little addition to the ma
tional working powor-nay, with aot-
val reduction of the national wealth
and prosperity-seeing that, regarded
as economic agents" children are
simply source of expense; and 50 also
are majority Of the elderly who have
passed the age Of three-score. On the
other hand. as already said, only one
quarter Of the longer or additional life
now enjoyed by our people is passed ia
the useless periods of childhood and
old age, and more than one-third Of it
is lived at ages when life is in its high
est vigor and most productive alike Of
wealth and enjoyment = CorshiU Mag
oztsse.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

WHY not relv upon vourself =
wb,,e and tbus cet In the wnv AZ sncs
cess
"a fool never adm,res h,mse,g y
much rs when he has committed so,no
folly
'Tbose with whom n i aa.v &.
aorce arc not always the most 10 be -. 4
snected.
Wore al, mon 70 600 th,nl aud "a
alike all Of humanity would be sittino (
q, ;dlonoss sncL;no tho;r tbur,,,s s'z
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All tho rood thinos ri thia Vvorl1 4
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n.e. aud wh.teyer ws nav he.n Il, e .
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r.. NO Relieve n,hars 70 10 h.,,.,is1 A
than thew arc
--"John John. there's n BURGLAR IL (
the bousc, hear him ~ The cur,. s
boardr, "Wbere ven mt that pIeis, Z
u ..w ~, - ~ ~ .''as 20
as U, 'o"n, VIZ -. ~
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s,i'nk ice cream 10 aelc'ou
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Saving Clover Seed.

Red clover seed is best saved from
the second crop, as the first seeds but
imperfectly, and has too great a
growth of straw. The first crop is
either mown early or pastured till the
middle or last of June. In some local
tiles an insect destroys the seed. Some
farmers raise enough for home use and
SOW it in the chat, claiming that it is
more sure to grow, and thus saving
the expense of cleaning. But there are
now excellent machines for cleaning
clover seed. The crop is cut rather
high with scythe or mower, and then
partially dry raked into small wind
rows, where it is allowed to lie and
hlacken and become brittle, so that the
seed can be easily threshed out 1t is
then threshed directly from the field,
the straw having little or no value ~
forage Farm and Home.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08

Two Rhode Island BARRIERS went
fishing, and one baited his hook with a
live lizard about four inches long, The
lizard escaped into the water, and
few minutes after the other fisher
man pulled in sinner. He squeezed
it, and tho lizard jumped out Of jts
mouth,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08

The Financial Chronicle, with esti-
mates which appear to be carefully con-
sentative, places the present population
of the country at 6l.3ls.339. In tho
seven years since the last census it
places the increase by births at 1872
All. and by immigration at 3,793, coz.
making total gain of 1l,165,47a
With a corresponding increase we shall
have considerably over $4,000, 900 Of
people when the next census is taken.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Electricity from Fuel.

Mr. Edison's paper, read before the
Association for the Advancement Of
Science in New York, was to the effect
that the inventor had consummated his
endeavor to find way by which the
energy latent in coal could be made to
appear as electric energy directly by
means Of little transforming appafa-
tus, and had made such an appliance of
principle that the magnetism Of mag
netic metals, and especially iron, CO.
bait and nickel, is differently affected
by heat, as to accomplish the result he
desired. Whenever magnetic fluid
varies in strength in the vicinity Of .
conductor. Mr.. Edison explains, . cur
rent is generated in that conductor.
By placing an iron core in a magnetic
circuit, and by varying the magnetixa-
bility of the core by varying its tenn
perature, current Is generated in o
coil Of wire surrounding this core.
Upon this principle Mr.. Edison has
constructed generator of electricity.
which he calls the pyromagnetic gen.
crator--that is to say, generator Of
electric power by heat and magnetism.
-Leslie's lHssstroted Weekly.
Little Pauline left the city this
year for the first time in her baby re-
membrance. As the party Of which
Pauline was one got out of the cars and
into stage to go still further into tho
country. the child was observed to cast
her eyes, with an inexpressible delight
on her face, at the trees and wild how-
ers by the roadside; then, as her glance
wandered off to the stretches of mead
ow-land. she clasped her little hands in
ecstacy, and said, softly, Bless the
Lord" AasTsv's Bayey,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Ths gei' 9omiuio'l.
JULIAN e. FLEMING
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.

The circulation Of the NEW DOMINION IL
hrger now than at any time since IT was
established, and, as an advertising medium
q can not b. excelled-
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-10-08
ToREIGH.

Aimee, the once-famous opera bouffe
singer, died in Paris from surgical
operation.
The Roman police have seized the pope's
jubilee medals inscribed "Pope Leo MIL,
PontifeI ct Rex IL is expected the
vatican will protest against the seizure
and point out that the law OF guarantees
recognized the pope's right 10 the title OF
sovereign.
A German official reporting upon the
recent frontier shooting, contends that
the French huntsmen were on German
soil when the soldier shot at them. The
soldiers assertion 90 this effect is sup.
ported by one of the forest guards. IL IL
added that from the destiny OF the woods
IL was impossible for the soldier 20 have
seen or shot anybody at the place where
the Frenchmans blood stained the
ground, and that he must have crawled
there from the German side OF the boun-
Diary.
The Spanish government has decided
Ga reduce the customs duties collected in
Cuba on nocessaries of life and articles
used in native industries.